Police searching for armed person after woman found critically injured

By Elizabeth PattmanThe Dispatch

Tuesday

Dec 4, 2018 at 10:35 PMDec 5, 2018 at 8:59 AM

Lexington police are searching for an armed person believed to have critically injured a woman at the Economy Inn on National Boulevard Tuesday night.

According to Capt. Michael Hunt with the Lexington Police Department, officers were called to the scene around 7 p.m. after a fight allegedly broke out and possible shots were fired. Officers found a woman with a critical head injury after arriving.

Police are unsure at this time the cause of the unnamed woman’s injuries. Hunt said the injuries could be caused by a gunshot or could have been sustained after the woman was hit by a car. A gunshot was confirmed to have been fired on scene, but security video from the area also showed the woman jumped toward the car as it fled, Hunt explained.